Sending a Bunker-Buster Message to Iran

The U.S. has bombers in storage that Israel needs. A timely loan might get Tehran's attention.

By

David Deptula And

Michael Makovsky

April 7, 2014 7:07 p.m. ET

Prussian leader Frederick the Great once lamented, "The ways of negotiation have failed up to the present, and negotiations without arms make as little impression as notes without instruments." The same could be said about nuclear negotiations with Iran. The Obama administration has cut a deeply flawed interim deal, forgone new sanctions, and effectively taken the military option off the table. It's time to increase the pressure on Tehran by boosting Israel's military capacity to cripple Iran's nuclear program.